[bitbake-devel] [PATCHv3 1/1] Allow bitbake commands starting with do_

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 15:56 -0500, Alex Franco wrote:
> The output of "bitbake, -c listtasks pkg" lists tasks with their real names
> (starting with "do_"), but then "bitbake -c do_task" fails, as "do_" always
> gets unconditionally prepended to task names. This patch handles this error
> by always removing "do_" from the beginning of task names when the runqueue
> is being constructed.
> 
> [YOCTO #7818]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Franco <alejandro.franco at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py
> index 0f99e5a..7b25e31 100644
> --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py
> +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py
> @@ -634,6 +634,10 @@ class RunQueueData:
>  
>              fnid = taskData.build_targets[targetid][0]
>              fn = taskData.fn_index[fnid]
> +
> +            if target[1].startswith("do_"):
> +                target[1] = target[1][3:]
> +
>              self.target_pairs.append((fn, target[1]))
>  
>              if fnid in taskData.failed_fnids:

I tried this on the autobuilder and we saw cascades of failures, e.g:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/build-appliance/builds/468/steps/BuildImages/logs/stdio 

so clearly we need more thought on this. I prefer the .startswith over
the regex as in general its much faster code than loading the re engine.

Cheers,

Richard